Garment-supporter



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GARMENT SUPPORTER.

Patented 00H0, 18914.

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LENA A. TOPP, OF SYRACUSE, NEV YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 461,650, dated October20, 1891.

Application filed November 22, 1890. Serial No. 372,316. (No model.)

. is secured, and which are designed to grip the hose between twosurfaces without piercing it or passing through punctures therein.

My object is to construct a hose-supporter from two plates, one lyingupon the other, the outer one having one end hinged to the main plateand also having a series of rounded or blunt teeth upon its lower end,and the main or inner plate having a loop at one end,'in which the strapor webbing is secured, having also an enlarged aperture adjacent to thelower end, and having rounded or blunt teeth projecting; longitudinallyand upward from the inner edge of the end bar, said hinge being formedfrom a portion of the main plate bent over a bar across the top of theouter plate.

My invention consists in the several novel .features of construction andoperation which are hereinafter described, and which are specificallyset forth in the claim hereto anneXed.

It is constructed as. follows, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure l is a plan View of the face of the inner ormain plate, showing the hinge-piece stamped out -from the plate andprojecting therefrom. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of same. Fig. 3 is aside elevation of this plate, showing how the hinge-piece is bent overto form the hinge-barrel. Fig. 4 is a side elevat-ion of thehose-supporter complete, showing the swing of the outer plate by dottedlines. Fig.- 5 is a plan view of the outer plate. Fig. 6 is a Verticallongitudinal section of the hosesupporter complete. Fig. 7 is a frontelevation of the hose-supporter complete, showing a strap securedthereto. Fig. 8 is a side elevation of the hose-supporter as in use,with a strap secured to one end and, for illustration, another strapheld between `the plates at the lower end.

A is the back plate, stamped out of sheet metal, and by dies I also cutout three sides of part of the top, creating a hinge-piece a,

connected at one edge to this plate, and I also cut out inthe lower endthe opening b, creating a lower cross-bar c, upon the inner edge ofwhich are the blunt or rounded teeth or projections d. The punchingoutof the hingepiece creates a top loop e.

B is the outer plate, stamped out of sheet metal and having a top loop fand cross-bar g and blunt or rounded teeth or projections h projectinginwardly therefrom. The hingepiece a is bent over the cross-bar g, whichbar thus becomes the pintle of the hinge. The arrangementshown of twoteetn on the crossbarc and three on the cross-bar gis made by Ine inorder to bring each tooth on 'one substantially opposite a cavity ordepression in the other. The plate B hangs low enough so thatits teethcannot mesh with those of the back plate.

Vhen a hose or strap m is inserted through the aperture b and thro ughbetween the plates and is drawn taut around anything, then the severalteeth will impinge upon the strap or hose, and it will be grippedbetween and held by them, by the cavities between them, and by thedrawing in of the outer plate against the other.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

A garmentsupporter consisting of a back plate provided with a top loop,a transverse hinge-barrel struck up from and integral with the backplate, an opening through the plate below the hinge-barrel, creating alower crossbar, and upwardly-projecting teeth upon the upper edge ofsaid cross-bar, a front plate having a top loop, and a cross-barintegral with said plate, fitting loosely th rough the hinge-barrel uponthe back plate, and having teeth upon its lower end, arranged oppositethe cavities between the teeth upon the back plate, but not meshingtogether, as set forth. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my handthis 8th day of November, 1890.

LENA A. TOPP. In presence of# W. A. SWEET, L. F. MILLER.

